Vocalist/composer Molly Holm, with her all-star jazz trio, makes her Red Poppy debut exploring the multicultural crossroads of improvised music through original compositions, straight-ahead and modal jazz tunes and traditional folk songs. Molly's music, often intertwined with the elements of North Indian raga, experimental vocals, or playful free-form improvisation, also reveals the rhythmic and note-bending influences inherited from the music of the African diaspora.

After many hours of production work (at a true Molly-like pace), I am pretty darn close to releasing video shorts from my last concert at the Freight & Salvage. I have been reviewing footage, selecting songs, mixing the live audio tracks, writing and editing credits and taking steps to obtain sync licenses.

My goal: to upload the video song segments onto my website & a new You Tube channel. You will then SEE & HEAR a lot of outstanding performances by my FAB band!

(I keep reminding myself that the tortoise won the race with the hare--but I'm not sure who I am racing here!)

Rinny Zin Records Begins Molly's New CD

Early in March, I invited my 5-member a cappella women's ensemble, The Impermanent Project, plus four other singers, up to Mesa Recording in Sebastopol. With the help of producer Frank Martin, we recorded a new long-tone piece that I have been developing, as well as my own spontaneously-composed, chant-like pieces in the tradition of Bobby McFerrin's circle-singing structure. I love to utilize polyrhythmic phrases, often with an African 6/8 feel, and tight-clustered harmonies that create a kind of haunting and mesmerizing soundscape.

MOLLY'S PERMISSION CD—released in 2013 on
Rinny Zin Records and produced by pianist/arranger Frank Martin—is infused with the creative talents of drummers Famoudou Don Moye and Deszon Claiborne, bassist Jeff Chambers, and saxophonist Larry Schneider. Featured guests on her CD, and long-time musical friends, include Wayne Wallace, Marc van Wageningen, Antonia Minnecola, David Frazier and the late greats William “Bill” Bell, Jr., Eddie Marshall and Paul van Wageningen.

“Edgy and defiant ... on the cutting edge of jazz vocals.”

—All About Jazz

“ ‘Permission’ is an exercise in creativity and a lesson in adventurous music. It’s a completely unpredictable album, full of surprises on each and every track.”—Jazz Station Blog, Arnaldo DeSouteiro

PERMISSION is available through Amazon, CD Baby, or by ordering directly from Molly via her website's
CONTACT page.